Netflix has won many fans, awards, Emmy nominations and critical reviews from its orignial series’ including “House of Cards” and “Orange is the New Black”. The increase in popularity has brought in a new stream of customers totaling the number of subscribers to 53 million.

The Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says that 2015 “brings us about halfway to our hopes and plans of what kind of projects are feasible.” He will reveal detailed plans on Wednesday to TV critics.

“We can successfully support about 20 original scripted series every year, with a new series or a new season every two to three weeks, and still maintain a level of quality we expect,” said Sarandos.

The new year has lots in store starting with new season of “House of Cards”, premiering on Feb 27. Other notable new additions to Netflix’s content includes “The Fall”, a BBC series starring Gillian Anderson; “Bloodline”, a family thriller from the creators of Damages; “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt “, a TV serial acquired from NBC and produced by Tina Fey; and “Marvel’s Daredevil”, on April 10 which is the first part of a five planned series from Marvel.

Growth in Netflix’s subscribers is in part to its international expansion. However, that doesn’t influence what kind of shows are made. “House of Cards”, an American political thriller, is “outrageously popular in China,” says Sarandos. In markets where the action genre isn’t the main export, Sarandos is “stunned at the level of success Orange has achieved”. He further adds on American comedy which according to conventional wisdom “doesn’t travel very well, our data indicates otherwise.”

Netflix host a wide range of theatrical movies and old TV shows. Last week, all season of the popular comedy series, “Friends”, was added to Netflix, which as Sarandos says, satisfied an urge for “comfort watching”. Two million viewers are drawn to 70 kids shows on the service, which keeps subscribers paying the monthly fee of $7.99. Kids shows like “Care Bears” and “Magic School Bus” are updated periodically.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, originally produced by and for NBC, “would have struggled on any broadcast network,” Sarandos says. “There are jokes in the show that would make a network executive squirm, and we embrace it.”

Not all Netflix original series’ have taken off like the expensive “Marco Polo”, released in December, which was slammed by critics for demonstrating less historical drama and more Kung Fu. “I’ve never seen a bigger disparity between user reviews and critic reviews,” Sarandas says, defending the series. “We want to have both, but if I had to choose between the two, I’d pick fans.” Due to strong viewership, the series is to be renewed for a second season.

Just in case the Netflix original production offices didn’t taste enough like 80’s brand diabetes, the streaming giants have gone ahead and commissioned a revival series of children’s classics the Care Bears.

Joining Popples in that particular part of the online streaming stable, new show Care Bears and Cousins is a cartoon set for Netflix premiere in 2016, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The format will join other children’s content to arrive on the platform in the coming years such as Dinotrux, Kong: King of the Apes, and 90’s adaptation The Magic School Bus 360˚.

Speaking in a recent interview with CNN Money, Netflix’s ‘chief content officer’ Ted Sarandos claimed that the continual decisions to bring well-known children’s franchises to life on screen or back from the dead is down to their status of being “trusted brands” which by implication require comparatively little time or effort to promote.

He said of the overall goals from their recent original content drive: “At no point do I think the originals will dominate the acquisitions. I think Netflix is a channel, and it’s a different kind of channel for every one of our members. To a 12-year-old boy, Netflix means something completely different than it does to a 5-year-old girl or a 40-year-old. When you look at almost any content channel, the audience ages out of them. I watched it happen with my own children, who started with PBS and migrated to the Disney Channel and then Nick and then back to the Disney Channel and then ABC Family and then into mainstream television. The site can, in a very automated way, age with you, based on the things you’re watching.”

The Care Bears, a 1980s creation of American Greetings, are a toy and media empire which encompasses numerous movies and TV iterations, amongst other formats. Character-wise, the franchise in the world of Care-a-lot originally carried a set of 10 ‘care bears’ each bearing their own unique colour and logo – but later expanded to a number of other bears, characters, and creatures, including the ‘Care Bear Cousins’, which is where this new series comes in…

Having gone through two revivals over the past decade (with Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-lot on CBS between 2007 and 2008, and CGI version Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-lot on The Hub Network in 2012), will American Greetings’ next efforts at a Care Bears series be a more successful one now it has Netflix on its side? This is the platform, of course, which probably helped contribute to the unexpected out-of-demographic popularity of another toy-selling franchise’s official cartoon, so… will ‘Carebros’ become a thing in 2016? Apparently not, because the creators have their own ideas on what that name should be.